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Hello and welcome to this week's naked scientists with me Helen Scales and with Ben Valsler hello Ben

hello Ben. Now this week we're looking at the science of laughter and music finding

out how science and scientists have inspired stand-up comedy and music festivals and finding out what's going on inside our brains that makes laughter just so addictive.

Thank you Helen. We will be talking to writer and comedian Robin Hintz about how geneticists and astronomers feature in his latest tour.

We'll be finding out what sort of music you can expect at the world's first online science music festival, that's called Geek Pop, and we'll be talking to

award-winning comedian Catherine Ryan about how she felt about being genetically

profiled. There are different genes, they can test, different markers that might say you'd have a higher

probability of getting cancer than someone else.

And it was just something that I'd love to do to see what else is in there. Plus, we'll follow the footprints of Man's evolution to bipedal walking.

We'll find out how Jupiter and Saturn acted as celestial bulldozers to clear away parts of the asteroid belt and will discover how a

cheeky octopus left an aquarium knee deep in water. And in kitchen science Dave

is sticking with a theme of musical science in a way that only he can. He'll be building a tabletop guitar.

That's all on the way this week on The Naked Scientists, so if you want to get in touch with

any questions or comments, we'd love to hear from you. Our email address is Chris at the

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Now there are asteroids missing from the belts between Jupiter and Mars

and researchers now think that they were shoved out of place by two of our solar systems gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn, as they assumed their current orbit some 4 billion years ago.

Writing in the journal Nature, David Minton and Renue Malhotra from the University of Arizona

identified gaps in the asteroid belt where there should be an even distribution of asteroids.

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